When we're in the early days of spiritual "infancy", it's understandable that we're still going to struggle with certain sins that make a mess of our lives. But spiritual maturity involves growing in our relationship with God so that over time, the mess created by sin becomes less and less. When we plug in to the local church and become part of a church family, we get the help of others to scoop up our messes -- and eventually we become "scoopers" for other people's sin struggles, too.